Is he dead yet?

Proud Democrat. LGBTQ ally. Rescue pup Whitney understands. Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. ~Dag Hammarskjold

[Is he dead yet? @GrandSuSu]

"Do not go gentle into that good night...
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

-Dylan Thomas

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Republican House Majority Leader @BrendenJonesNC stood on the floor of the North Carolina House of Representatives and lied.

Specifically, Jones claimed that the state ABC Commissioner had asked him to insert a new amendment to a bill that would allow the ABC to pursue a "public-private partnership" to build a big new state liquor warehouse. The plan Jones supported was a half-billion dollar automated warehouse that the state would first pay for, and then lease - not buy - from the developer who built it.

Except, the ABC Commissioner says that isn't true. In fact, the ABC Commissioner supported a different plan - a much less expensive one, which the state would own completely.

It turns out, that developer, and their lobbyists, have shoveled over half a million dollars in campaign contributions to Brenden Jones himself, House Speaker @ncspeakerhall, and other prominent Republican politicians.

All just a big coincidence? 🫤

[Paul Freid @PaulFreid5]

#MAGA < Molesting Adolescent Girls Association

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

NEW: Billionaire Leon Black is just one of as many as 25 men suspected of paying millions of dollars in secret legal settlements involving young women, some of whom were victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/QPQ7mGFuny

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 BREAKING: Major legal victory for MeidasTouch host Katie Phang.

Judge Emmet Sullivan has granted Phang's motion for a preliminary injunction, ordering the Trump administration to move forward on key transparency measures in the Epstein files case—including defending redactions, producing additional records, and publishing the disclosure log required by law.

[Lies Or Liars @Liesorliars]

THE VIDEO

7 weeks after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Jeffrey Epstein told Steve Bannon a video of the killing may exist.

This was Thanksgiving Day 2018. The Saudi government had admitted Khashoggi was killed but was still disputing the circumstances. The existence of audio and video recordings was not yet publicly confirmed.

Epstein sent this.

"There may be a video of kasshohgi. If so game over"

Turkish intelligence had recorded the killing inside the consulate. The CIA had concluded MBS ordered the murder. Neither had been officially confirmed publicly at the time Epstein sent this message.

Epstein was not reading the news. He had already assessed MBS as becoming too weak to sit at a table of leaders. He had already mapped MBS's covert operations network to Bannon 7 weeks earlier. Now he was telling Bannon the video existed before it was public knowledge.

A convicted sex offender. With advance intelligence on the existence of a murder recording. Sharing it privately with a former White House Chief Strategist on Thanksgiving Day.

This is message 1526 of 3,356 in the Bannon thread alone. We have read 1,700.

Source: DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act release. Jmail iMessage Archive. steve-bannon thread. Message 1526. November 22 2018.

[Ice Crystal @SoulReaper2222]

Whilst Trump is diverting focus to the reflecting pool fiasco let's not forget that he's implicated thousands of times in the Epstein files.
RELEASE THE FILES IN THEIR ENTIRETY!

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Charles Barton Lucas, 59, Fruitland Park, FL, a registered Republican, VP at ProMac Building Supply, self described youth mentor, listed as “overseer” on Heritage Community Church website was arrested for filming adolescent girls in the church bathroom. 🤬 https://t.co/KpjpOe3GjV

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Trump’s first wife, Ivana Zelníčková, fell down the stairs and died just a week before she was supposed to testify against Trump.
She is buried on a golf course; her grave is overgrown with weeds, and no one ever visits it.
For some reason, that doesn’t surprise anyone at all…

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

Hmmm...

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🧐🤔U.S. House Representative Thomas Massie:
“Last night I received a flash drive containing the complete list of files belonging to Jeffrey Epstein. Everything is there: every billionaire, every campaign donor, every single person. Now let me explain why you haven’t heard anything about this in the media. Because they’re all in there. They will do everything to prevent these documents from being made public. Epstein was far more than just a pedophile; he was an intelligence asset. He was part of a blackmail operation used to control billionaires, politicians, and world leaders. If this list ever sees the light of day, the system as we know it will collapse. The public has the right to know the truth, and I am not afraid to share it.”
It looks like a political earthquake may be coming.

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

This deal is an insult to the people of eastern North Carolina.

Chemours is directly responsible for enormous groundwater contamination, and the EPA just cut a backroom deal that lets them off the hook.

Our state is ground zero for GenX contamination, but under this deal North Carolina would receive practically nothing.

That is unacceptable.

The EPA may not care about water pollution in eastern North Carolina, but I do. My office will keep pressing our state case to hold Chemours accountable for the mess they made.
https://t.co/zYz7kY0V0S

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

Sec Hegseth fires four star US Army General CD Donahue commanding US Army Europe. Donahue clearly the most extraordinary combat leader in a generation. Brilliant. Fearless. Bold. Integrity. Incredible leader.

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: US Senators Just put Trump’s Son-in-Law Jared Kushner under Investigation for getting Billions From Middle East While Shaping U.S. Foreign Policy

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

The State Board of Elections has proposed new rules that could make it harder for North Carolinians to vote and have their votes counted.

The good news? The State Board is accepting public comments, and it's required to consider public feedback before making a decision.

Your voice matters. Submit a comment by July 15th, share your voting experience, and encourage others to do the same.

Democracy works best when every eligible voter can participate and every lawful vote counts.

Learn more and submit a comment: https://t.co/NShARvZYB7

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Of course he did. Doesn't matter that the bill is bipartisan.

He doesn't give a shit about Americans; he only cares about staying out of jail.

And if that requires stealing an election or two and destroying American democracy, that's exactly what he's going to try to do.

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

Jes Staley ran JPMorgan's private bank and later led Barclays.

An FBI and SDNY memo in the Epstein files: in October 2019, an adult victim said Epstein directed her to massage Staley, and that Staley raped her during it.

He has never been charged.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

👀

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

The head of each agency was hired specifically to destroy the agency they headed. ALL of them

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

Howard Lutnick is Trump's Commerce Secretary.

In the files sits a November 2017 email from Jeffrey Epstein's own account, forwarding notice of a Wall Street dinner honoring Lutnick to his accountant.

The files had his name the whole time.